Posted by kopeck on November 01, 2008 at 17:12:44 from (216.227.10.104):
In Reply to: Honey bees posted by john in la on November 01, 2008 at 15:22:26:
john in la said: (quoted from post at 15:22:26 11/01/08) So there are European bees that we raise in hives.
There are the really mean bees; I believe they are from Africa.
Then there must be some bee that was here before 1492 are have we cross breed these with European bees so much that they really do not exist anymore.
While I do not know anything about bees the reason I want to do this is most likely mites. Seams the wild bees are having a tough time and here I thought it was habitat loss that was causing it. Hence wanting to installing a hive or wild/feral bee house.
What would it take to help a feral colony make it in a hive????
Once a year spraying??
In other words how hard would it be to control mites??
And if I did help keep down mite population could they then survive by themselves or is there other things I would have to help them with.
Thanks for the info
There is no "American Honey Bee", before they where imported from Europe, there where no honey bees in America. Seems kind of hard to believe, but it's true. Honey Bee's are native to Europe and Asia. I guess a lot of imported honey is coming to China these days (what else it new), their bees (Apis cerana) are a lot small then our European's (Apis mellifera). The Asian honey bee's also have given us a new (to us) stain of nosema to deal with....
Dave2 proabably gave the best option. A lot of bee keepers are looking for different places to set colonies. Right now I'm at two different locations, both being my own property though. I will warn you, most folks don't like to set just 1 colony, they may have a minimum of 4 or something like that. It's a lot of work to run all over the place to take care of one hive at a time.
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